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Rwandan rejects genocide claim ; Oswald Rukemuye, who lives in the Dayton area, denies leading a group of Hutu killers.
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Dayton Daily News
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July 14, 2008
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DAYTON -- It's easy to imagine Oswald Rukemuye as a young man 14
years ago presiding over about 500 students as the headmaster of a
Rwandan elementary school.
It's much harder to picture Rukemuye, who has lived peacefully in
the Dayton area since 1996, as the ruthless leader of a Hutu militia
implicated in uncounted deaths.
The Rwandan government and a nongovernmental organization that
investigates genocide and other human rights abuses say Rukemuye was
known as Oswald Rurangwa in Rwanda, and he recruited and led a group
of Hutu killers during the 1994 genocide.
Africa Rights, the nongovernmental organization, issued a report
in April quoting 20 witnesses linking Rukemuye to ...